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It has been a while since we had any gratuitous hippo pictures so…

· How very odd!

A clean hippo is a happy hippo…
and remember: safety first –
never stand between a hippo and a dishwasher

June 4th, 2003 |

11 comments to It has been a while since we had any gratuitous hippo pictures so…

  • Mary Rose
    June 4, 2003 at 9:43 pm

    Philosophy, challenging but well argued comments, politics, humour, international affairs, arts and entertainment, historical views about Iceland, sports… and gratuitous hippo pictures.

    Yes, it would be fair to say this weblog is one of the bright little fragrant islands in that festering swamp of predicable mosquito infested mediocrity called the Internet.

    But why a hippo? In a dishwasher? No… forget I asked. Some things are better left to the imagination.

  • mark holland
    June 4, 2003 at 10:15 pm

    fragrant islands

    Not for long!

    When a hippo clambers into some clean water, just to feel comfy and homely, it produces some poop and then vigerously mixes it into the water with its tail. I was “lucky” to see this in action at Whipsnade Zoo one time.

  • T. Hartin
    June 4, 2003 at 11:21 pm

    Sounds like, with a hippo on site, this island will be plenty fragrant soon enough.

  • mark
    June 4, 2003 at 11:54 pm

    I read once that hippos kill more people than any other large African animal. Someone annoys a hippo, the hippo grabs their leg in his mouth, goes underwater, and waits. The person drowns long before the hippo would.

    Isn’t that rather how the State works with people it dislikes?

  • Tim Newman
    June 5, 2003 at 8:45 am

    A hippo? I thought it was John Prescott, sulking because he’s been refused NHS treatment.

  • Chris
    June 5, 2003 at 8:05 pm

    Mark, above, succeeds in turning a hippo in a dishwasher into a political point.

  • Omnibus Bill
    June 6, 2003 at 3:30 am

    How the f*** did you fit Clare Short into a dishwasher?

    Uh oh, watch out! She’s getting ready to charge!

    No she’s not.

    Uh oh, yes she is!

    Wait a minute…

  • Tim G.
    June 6, 2003 at 8:03 pm

    i love the hippo!

  • Brittany
    October 18, 2003 at 1:29 am

    This is cruel.

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